#On1 hdr vs aurora series

Apply the HDR Look effect to the MIDTONES Only: With HDR images, one of the biggest flaws comes from shadow noise and tone compressed Highlights.

There are some things you need to modify to get the HDR Effect Look to look great: At first, I wanted to reject it, but then I modified some settings and was dumbfounded by how awesome the effect looked. I remembered that ON1 had a filter called “HDR Look” so I gave it a go. The other day I was processing a photo of the Gem Theater in Kansas City and I wanted that HDR look on the building because the architecture is just gorgeous. Before you say it… I already know, these are first world problems in the order of cameras and technology, but I assure you the struggle is real and I am not alone!

I would say my bracketing has gone from all the time with the Canon to maybe 20% of the time with the Sony.Įvery now and then I long for that detailed HDR Look that I grew to love from Tone Mapping brackets. That is not true for every instance, though. In any event, I found that there was more often than not, enough information in a single RAW file to extract and exploit the dynamic range of the scene to get the HDR look I yearned for. yes, 1.8 gigabytes for a single image, not a panorama.

#On1 hdr vs aurora series

There is a plethora of dynamic range information in every file that thing pumps out, which is awesome, but the file sizes are huge! I once bracketed a series of images, ran it through Photomatix, saved it as a 16 bit Tiff, applied the Zone Systems and then saved it. Ever since I started using the Sony a7Rii I have found myself bracketing images less and less.